Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series

Motets is a set of intimate and spiritually uplifting a cappella choral works by Karl Jenkins, featuring new pieces and arrangements of a selection of movements from his most popular works, including...

Symphonic Adiemus presents twelve numbers from the Adiemus series in dynamic new scorings for SATB choir and full symphony orchestra. Since it was first heard in 1994, Adiemus has captured the imagina...

Symphonic Adiemus presents twelve numbers from the Adiemus series in dynamic new scorings for SATB choir and full symphony orchestra. Since it was first heard in 1994, Adiemus has captured the imagina...

Media vita was commissioned in 2015 by the English vocal ensemble, Siglo de Oro, and their director Patrick Allies to celebrate 500 years since the birth of the English Renaissance composer, John Shep...

Motets is a set of intimate and spiritually uplifting a cappella choral works by Karl Jenkins, featuring new pieces and arrangements of a selection of movements from his most popular works, including...

Motets is a set of intimate and spiritually uplifting a cappella choral works by Karl Jenkins, featuring new pieces and arrangements of a selection of movements from his most popular works, including...

A simple and short but very beautiful setting of the well-known Christina Rossetti text by Cornish composer Becky McGlade. An atmosphere of cold, winter stillness is conveyed in this piece with its ge...

The original version of Flight Song (for SATB) was written as a gift to Dr Anton Armstrong and the St Olaf Choir, Minnesota, with whom Arnesen has worked on a number of occasions. The SSAA version was...

I denna ljuva sommartid (In this sweet summertime) is a well-known traditional summer psalm in Sweden. The text is of German origin, written in 1653 by Paul Gerhardt (1607-76) (‘Geh aus, mein Herz, un...

This Christmas carol was written in 2009 for the senior choir of Dr Challoner’s High School in Buckinghamshire, England. The text, taken from the 17th-century clergyman Joseph Beaumont’s poem ‘Christm...

Motets is a set of intimate and spiritually uplifting a cappella choral works by Karl Jenkins, featuring new pieces and arrangements of a selection of movements from his most popular works, including...

This setting of the familiar opening lines of Henry Vaughan’s 'The World' was Lucy Walker's first commission as Composer-in-Residence with St Martin’s Voices, and was premiered by the ensemble in June...

Commissioned by St Martin’s Voices to mark Remembrance Day in 2024, There will come soft rains showcases the range of the choir’s musical colour-palette through the repetition of the opening motif in...

Commissioned by St Martin’s Voices to mark Remembrance Day in 2024, There will come soft rains showcases the range of the choir’s musical colour-palette through the repetition of the opening motif in...

Love Flows was commissioned by the Choir of Wells Cathedral and Alexander Hamilton to mark the occasion of the installation of the Reverend Canon Toby Wright as Dean of Wells in June 2024. The etherea...

Settings of two poems by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, 'Rublev' ('One day, God walked in') and 'Our Lady of Vladimir' ('To Our Lady'), both inspired by famous Russian icons: The...

Written for the BBC Singers in 2019, Stars above, earth below is a hopeful and reflective setting of the poem Leaves by Sara Teasdale (1884–1933). The piece begins with celestial, descending lines acr...

Written for a 2024 commission from Jonathan Harris for Newport Pagnell Singers, the music for Rejoice in the light came to composer Ben Ponniah in a dream. It possesses a rugged, medieval character si...

O Little One Sweet was commissioned by Simon Bell for the Chapel Choir of Dean Close School and Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum. Each verse of the carol becomes more animated and moves further harmon...

Two arrangements of the carols published in 1582 as part of the Medieval collection of Latin songs, Piae Cantiones. The melodies are taken from that collection, which also contains many well-known car...

This setting was written as the 4th movement of Todd's 2009 Te Deum which was commissioned by the Vivace Chorus. Todd's jazz background is evident in this approachable but effective setting of the fam...

Written for the 2025 BBC Radio 3 Epiphany Carol Service, broadcast from Pembroke College, Cambridge, Arise, shine sets the first three verses of Isaiah 60: 'Arise, shine, for your light has come, and...

A setting of one of the seven O Antiphons, O Adonai, is built upon an ostinato figure on a single note which starts and ends the composition, initially using the words of the title. Acting as a drone...

This anthem was commissioned by Anna Lapwood for the Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, during her tenure as Director of Music, to mark the 40th anniversary of women being admitted to study at the...

Will Todd's setting of the Christmas Latin text, O magnum mysterium (O great mystery), was commissioned in 2023 for Unionville High School Chorale and Brandywine Valley Chorale and their conductor Jas...